Both John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? are set in America during…
Women writers at the beginning of the 20th Century began an exploration into the mind and a self-awareness of the…
During the 19th Century, the novel began its rise to show the struggle between ‘self’ and ‘other’. As the century…
Yesterday, I attended the National Writers’ Conference in the Bramall Music Building at the University of Birmingham held by Writing…
In the same way Victorian journalist Henry Mayhew reported on the life of the working classes in his articles published…
Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey was a satirical and experimental novel. Prose was a new form for the Romantics and…
Amy L Blair’s essay entitled ‘Misreading The House of Mirth’ is an investigation into the reading practises at the turn…
Who is the man of the crowd in Poe’s tale, what is his critical and narrative function and what wider…
The 19th Century was rich in women writers and characters. They introduced a woman’s perspective in literary writing which…
It might sound strange calling a blog post “What a Year” in the middle of June but my academic year…